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by api 13y ago
Even if there is some sort of god or creator or what have you, it would be... as Sagan put it in Contact... an awful waste of space if we were the only project.
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by api 13y ago
The USA today is a thoroughly fear-based culture. Land of the free, home of the brave.
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by api 13y ago
Heh... I've noted an example of a lemon market recently: blenders. Try buying a consumer-grade blender. It will break in under a year. You have to buy commercial grade (e.g. Vitamix) or don't bother. All the consumer-grade blender
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by api 13y ago
I've run into the Gervais principle in practice too, and I have a different thought. It's a thought that I find very depressing. It seems to me that the vast majority of people are timid, conservative, and simply too afraid to d
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by api 13y ago
It's a special case of a more general problem of a winner take all economy where almost all profits go to the holders of monopolies on attention and distribution channels.
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by api 13y ago
I love how the Internet is facilitating this slow awakening to the degree to which the media is controlled and spun.
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by api 13y ago
The fundamental problem is that G+ is a Facebook imitation. It's the sincerest form of flattery... of your competition.
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by api 13y ago
Personally I think the risk that CAs are or will be compromised is much higher than the risk of a practical SHA-1 preimage attack. The entire CA model is very shaky. MS has a history of helping out its buddies in the certificate troll maf
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by api 13y ago
AES-specific instructions were even a bit questionable... but this is highly questionable. Algorithm-specific instructions are basically going to become very dated cruft within a few years to a decade tops and are probably a bad thing to
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by api 13y ago
Even if SHA-1 were weakened considerably, this would not impact this particular use case all that much... except in cases where git hashes are used in a security-critical way. (Which is probably not that great an idea...)
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by api 13y ago
The best way to reduce human fertility (without child abandonment and forced abortions and other human rights horrors) is to educate the population and make them wealthy... at least to somewhat middle class standards. Then fertility drops t
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by api 13y ago
One thing I've believed for a very long time (based on some first hand observations) and that this article backs up: Super-rich people who got that way by doing productive things or entrepreneurial things -- people like Jeff Bezos, Elo
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by api 13y ago
Here's a suggestion: http:// is encrypted but performs NO certificate check. https:// is encrypted but performs a certificate check. Done.
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by api 13y ago
If Austerity cut waste , it would probably work. The problem is that in government waste usually stems from bureaucratic calcification and corruption. Calcified and corrupt bureaucracies are highly resistant to change and have the system &
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by api 13y ago
I'm on the fence about this issue. The problem is that this is often the only way to get a bureaucracy to do anything, ever . For example... I am skeptical of manmade global warming alarmism. Not that I don't think humans might b
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by api 13y ago
It's in the best interest of Google, Facebook, and Amazon to play ball here. These restrictions will make it harder for DuckDuckGo, Medium, or Craigslist to compete with them.
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by api 13y ago
Not only that, these companies have absorbed state and local subsidies to build out their infrastructures based on the promise that they would provide service to the public good. That invalidates any faux-libertarian defense they might have
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by api 13y ago
Trickle down economics would only work if your average rich person were a Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk, not an overstuffed communist apparatchik in a business suit.
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by api 13y ago
I agree. Reaganomics started massively concentrating wealth long before the Internet came along.
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by api 13y ago
It's common during rapid shifts in technology to have a kind of gilded age when "robber barons" who are early adopters amass absurdly huge fortunes very quickly. Same thing happened with the railroads, telephone, television,
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The 13 Most Insidious, Pervasive Lies of the Modern Music Industry…(digitalmusicnews.com)
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by api 13y ago
"low standards of evidence, exhibit poor logical reasoning, or engage in obvious bias" I don't disagree with any of this. Unfortunately these are the only muckrakers we've got. Everyone else just smiles and nods until th
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by api 13y ago
Absolutely. That's why we need real investigative journalism. The problem is that this is very, very hard and expensive to do well and nobody seems willing to pay for it.
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by api 13y ago
A conspiracy theorist seems to be an investigative journalist or a social critic with poor epistemology. I have noticed over the years that the concretes reported upon and the trends pointed out by conspiracy theorists -- even some of the w
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by api 13y ago
The phrase "conspiracy theory" has been used to great effect to silence criticism and shut down real investigative journalism. It's a simple guilt by association technique: if you think anything other than the official line,
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by api 13y ago
At this point I think a big reason prohibition is kept alive is to save face. To end it, they'd have to admit they were wrong.
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by api 13y ago
"Unfortunately we live in a world where all too often, laws are for the little people." This is sort of the crux of it. We are degenerating into a true oligarchy and/or gangster state in which there are two different systems
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by api 13y ago
I wasn't clear in my OP: there was poor communication on both sides here. I was receiving mixed messages, with the company's VP basically claiming I wasn't able to deliver anything good enough and my immediate boss telling me
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by api 13y ago
Apparently the fact that I had "rewritten something for performance" was viewed as an inherently bad thing to do regardless of the rationale or benefit. That's because some smart guy once said it was "the root of all evi
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by api 13y ago
This. Management by catch-phrase, one-liner, pre-packaged "management methodology," etc. is about as good as code written in the same thought-free manner. As with code, good management requires deep consideration of the actual pro

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